Green Sky Thinking Week

It’s designed for property and built environment professionals from across the private and public sectors who want new insights and knowledge on how to deliver real sustainable solutions:

• giving you a unique inside view in informal (and often on-site) settings from top experts and industry leaders
• hear direct from leading names in the commercial property sector including Lend Lease, Arup, British Land, Derwent London, Nine Elms Vauxhall Partnership and many others
• more than 50 talks, tours and informal seminars with numbers limited to maximise knowledge-sharing and networking
• supported by key industry organisations including the British Council for Offices

All events are free but advance booking essential. BCO is an Institution Supporter of Green Sky Thinking Week. For more information visit www.greenskythinking.org.uk

We’ve picked out a selection of next week’s events that have particular relevance to the commercial property industry.

‘Fit-4-Future and Green Tea’
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Derwent London
Tuesday 18 Sept, 9.00am – 10.00am; Wednesday 19 Sept, 9.00am – 10.00am
Explanation of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Fit-4-Future process of refurbishment of existing buildings. Click here to book.

‘Nine Elms on the South Bank – Creating a New Low Carbon Central London District’
Nine Elms Vauxhall Partnership
Tuesday 18 Sept, 8.15am for 8.30am – 10.00am
Nine Elms on the South Bank is being transformed into a brand new residential and business quarter. Hear on-site about the approach to delivering new public realm, energy and transport infrastructure solutions to prepare this 195 hectare district for a major increase in population and commercial uses. Click here to book.

‘7 More London – PwC’s New Sustainable Office’
PwC
Wednesday 19 Sept, 8.30am – 9.30am
An informal on-site seminar on 7 More London – PwC’s new sustainable office building, comprising 470,000 sq.ft, which was the first major office building in the UK to achieve BREEAM ‘outstanding’. (Please note this is not a building tour.) Click here to book.

The Refurbishment of 199 Bishopsgate
John Robertson Architects
Thursday 20 Sept, 8.00am – 10.00am
Festus Moffat, Director, of John Robertson Architects, Sarah Cary, Sustainable Development Executive at British Land, and Darren Coppins of Chapman Bathurst, discuss on site the successful completion of the green refurbishment of British Land’s 199 Bishopsgate office development at Broadgate. Click here to book. 

‘Asset Optimisation – people or property?’
Lend Lease (Supporter)
Friday 21 Sept, 8.00am for 8.30am start – 10.00am
Panel discussion and building tour of 20 Triton Street with panel members including Tim Oldman, Leesman; Louis Lhoest; and Duncan Young, Lend Lease, moderated by Jane Clay, Pringle Brandon. Click here to book.